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Colombia: an election which may determine the fate of peace

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Colombia: an election which will determine the fate of peace By Thomas Mortensen, Colombia Country Manager, Christian Aid As Colombians head to the polls on the...

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

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Brazil’s government this week announced a major shift away from its policy of building mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon – a strategy born...

Frei Henri, champion of justice for Brazil’s rural poor

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A chapter in international solidarity with Brazil’s embattled rural poor closed on Sunday 26 November with the death of Dominican priest and lawyer, Henri...

Belo Horizonte gets a Land Reform Farmers Market

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Authorities, representatives of social and cultural movements, and an appreciative audience gathered in Belo Horizonte for the opening of the Farmers' Market Shop, another...

Colombia: peace, but maybe not the peace we hoped for

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Without addressing crucial elements of the original agreement, the revised peace deal risks not living up to expectations in Colombia. It has been a year...

Brazil: police target MST members in land occupations

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The small town of Quedas do Iguaçu, in southern Brazil close to the border with Paraguay, awoke to the sound of helicopters on November 4 last...

Brazil’s MST: challenging power structures and the need for ‘historic patience’

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The Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Worker's Movement, MST) has a gender-balanced national directorate of 52 individuals, with two people elected...

Brazil: Indigenous peoples boxed in by political crisis

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This article was translated from the French by Gregory Duff Morton, Bard College. After two decades of military dictatorship, a new Constitution proclaimed in 1988...

Haiti: Hope in the season of hurricanes

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Prospéry Raymond, Christian Aid’s country manager for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, reflects on how Haiti is moving on from one disaster and preparing...

Brazil: rural land conflicts are part of a planned project of...

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The article was published (in Portuguese) by MST here. Translated and with additional material by Mike Gatehouse, for LAB. 2016 turned out to be the...

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